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Doctor Faustus : a two-text edition (A-text, 1604 ; B-text, 1616) contexts and sources, criticism /

By: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 [author].
Contributor(s): Kastan, David Scott [editor].
Series: Norton critical edition: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2005Description: 430 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0393977544; 9780393977547:; 9780393977547.Subject(s): Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Criticism | Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama | English drama -- History and criticism -- 17th century | Devil -- Drama | Magicians -- Drama | Germany -- DramaDDC classification: 822.3 MAR
Contents:
Textual notes -- The texts of Doctor Faustus. The tragical history of Doctor Faustus (A-Text, 1604) ; The tragedy of Doctor Faustus (B-Text, 1616) -- Sources and contexts. Christopher Marlowe ; Composition and publication ; Early performance ; The Faust legend ; Renaissance magic ; Religion -- Criticism. Early critics. From The history of English poetry : from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century / Thomas Warton ; [On Doctor Faustus] / Sir Walter Scott ; From specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb ; From Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the Age of Elizabeth / William Hazlitt ; From The life and works of Goethe / George Henry Lewes ; Faust on the stage / Anonymous ; From English poets : selections with critical introductions by various writers / A.C. Bradley ; "Prologue" to Doctor Faustus / A.C. Swinburne ; From Three philosophical poets / George Santayana ; Modern critics. Structure and genre. The unity of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / Cleanth Brooks ; Five-act structure in Doctor Faustus / G.K. Hunter ; Doctor Faustus and the morality tradition / Douglas Cole ; Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as an inverted saint's life / Susan Snyder ; Dr. Faustus (c. 1589-92) : subversion through transgression / Jonathan Dollimore ; From Anxieties of ending / Michael Neill ; "Such conceits as clownage keeps in pay" : comedy and Dr. Faustus / Roma Gill ; Ideas and ideologies. [Faustus and the failure of Renaissance man] / Charles G. Masinton ; Reading Faustus's God / Alan Sinfield ; [Writing and unwriting in Doctor Faustus] / Marjorie Garber ; [Marlowe and the heretical conscience] / Katharine Eisaman Maus ; Heavenly matters of theology : a feminist perspective / Alison Findlay ; [Magic and power in Doctor Faustus] / Stephen Orgel ; Performance. Staging the A- and B- texts of Doctor Faustus / David Bevington ; Review of Doctor Faustus, July 2, 1896, acted by members of the Shakespeare Reading Society / George Bernard Shaw ; [Doctor Faustus on the stage] / William Tydeman -- Christopher Marlowe : a chronology.
Summary: This Norton Critical Edition of Dr Faustus contains detailed explanatory annotations and provides edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play.
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First published in 1604. Includes 1616 edition also.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-430).

Textual notes -- The texts of Doctor Faustus. The tragical history of Doctor Faustus (A-Text, 1604) ; The tragedy of Doctor Faustus (B-Text, 1616) -- Sources and contexts. Christopher Marlowe ; Composition and publication ; Early performance ; The Faust legend ; Renaissance magic ; Religion -- Criticism. Early critics. From The history of English poetry : from the close of the eleventh to the commencement of the eighteenth century / Thomas Warton ; [On Doctor Faustus] / Sir Walter Scott ; From specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb ; From Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the Age of Elizabeth / William Hazlitt ; From The life and works of Goethe / George Henry Lewes ; Faust on the stage / Anonymous ; From English poets : selections with critical introductions by various writers / A.C. Bradley ; "Prologue" to Doctor Faustus / A.C. Swinburne ; From Three philosophical poets / George Santayana ; Modern critics. Structure and genre. The unity of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus / Cleanth Brooks ; Five-act structure in Doctor Faustus / G.K. Hunter ; Doctor Faustus and the morality tradition / Douglas Cole ; Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as an inverted saint's life / Susan Snyder ; Dr. Faustus (c. 1589-92) : subversion through transgression / Jonathan Dollimore ; From Anxieties of ending / Michael Neill ; "Such conceits as clownage keeps in pay" : comedy and Dr. Faustus / Roma Gill ; Ideas and ideologies. [Faustus and the failure of Renaissance man] / Charles G. Masinton ; Reading Faustus's God / Alan Sinfield ; [Writing and unwriting in Doctor Faustus] / Marjorie Garber ; [Marlowe and the heretical conscience] / Katharine Eisaman Maus ; Heavenly matters of theology : a feminist perspective / Alison Findlay ; [Magic and power in Doctor Faustus] / Stephen Orgel ; Performance. Staging the A- and B- texts of Doctor Faustus / David Bevington ; Review of Doctor Faustus, July 2, 1896, acted by members of the Shakespeare Reading Society / George Bernard Shaw ; [Doctor Faustus on the stage] / William Tydeman -- Christopher Marlowe : a chronology.

This Norton Critical Edition of Dr Faustus contains detailed explanatory annotations and provides edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play.

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